Part 4 in a 11-part blog series looking at questionable expenses of several government employees, as revealed by CTF Freedom of Information requests.
Vancouver Convention Centre manager Ken Cretney made $330,351 in 2011/12, and expensed another $54,071. Unbelievably, that only made him the 138th highest paid government employee in B.C. Still, $54,071 in expenses is equal to the average household income in Penticton.
As you’ll see from his expense report, Cretney charges taxpayers for a lot of gas and parking.
In February 2012, he spent 1,348.04 to fly to Chicago (p. 2).
In September, taxpayers paid $1,682.15 to send him to Orlando (p. 8). Also that month, he charged taxpayers $5,112.11 to send him to Leipzig, Germany for a convention (p. 12).
That wasn’t his only trip to Orlando last year. He also went in July and charged taxpayers $2,361.91 for his tickets and various fare changes (p. 16).
He did a Hong Kong/Singapore/Kuala Lumpur trip in April, but no airfare cost was disclosed to us (p. 35-36).
He also expensed a $179.20 gift basket to commemorate the opening of B.C. Place Stadium (p. 6). Fair to assume that this gift did not go to Bob Mackin.
In August, taxpayers paid $1,900 for he and three other staffers to play in the Tourism Industry Partners golf tournament in Whistler. We also shelled out $1,915.20 for he and a staffer to play in the B.C. Hospitality Foundation golf tourney (p. 14).
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